• pastalicious [he/him, undecided]@hexbear.net
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    I was forced to watch a zoom workplace presentation about the future of AI. They didn’t explicitly say this but it became clear that they can’t replace us yet because they don’t have the training data. This is why we will increasingly hear about all encompassing software solutions like Zoom workplace and why your boss will increasingly insist you conduct all business inside of it. They have to quantify and feed everything we do into the model. Bullshit jobs are first up… for better out worse.

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    so-far

    Just wait for the crash. They always do make the shifts in labor after the burst under cover of being more efficient or lean. Then demand those remaining to make massive concessions and double / tripple their work load. Never the executives - always the working class that needs to make the drastic changes and sacrafices.

    After 2008 -

    • Stopped rasing minimum wage
    • Pension Armageddon
    • Stupid HSAs and High Deductable health plan scams
    • Massive job consolidations
    • Slashing of benifets.

    mystery-emote

    Releasing that article now - don’t look / blame over here right before we do the rug pull. football-lucy

    Given right now the AI space in the US is mostly used for nineteeneightyfour hypersurvailance, finance, and marketing. If you see the AI/robotics in China - imagine how that would be abused in a free fall crap-it-all-ism. The system is just waiting to line up another financial Pearl Harbor to justify it.

    I see hyper inflation happening to the US. It is not going to be fun. I’m moving a good portion of my investments to safe havens. I think they want it to crash on Trump like they did GW Bush for the illusion of pinning it on a particular side and have a cathartic Democrat win to delude the people into thinking “Hope and Change” is back - please remain in the establishment margin. Dems are fully in the GW Bush space of the Overton Window. So electing a Dem is very much fell-for-it-again-award.

      • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        Just Suggestions for entertainment speculations Not investment advice.

        Obviously Labubus all-my-apes-gone

        Speculatron

        I LIKE GOOOooooooOoLD (betting against the dollar)…and silver with some platinum sprinkled in. I do expect a contraction for a bit as with the aftermath of other spikes, but over realtively short to medium time the price keeps stonks-up.

        If we go back to the gold silver standard then perhaps prices might drop or flatline, or if some nation finally gets the balls to grab the Golden Nugget from space to reduce scarcity.

        Look at before and after the petroldollar. Then from the forever post 9/11 wars. Many states allow you to buy and sell tax free with certian caveats such as long as it’s 90% or greater quality,or a certain amount. It’s one of those bougie-wink laws that us plebs have access to without needing a million dollar wealth gate.

        https://www.macrotrends.net/1333/historical-gold-prices-100-year-chart

        And “stable funds” that are designed to resist voltility.

        Fixed rate/term CDs are guaranteed. Not that great of interest. Time needed. But if you can find over 4.25% i’d say that a realtively safe place to park it and have it work for you. When rates were over 5.0% I did a few 9 month CDs. Not a lot made, but not a loss either. So if you got say $5k+ to that ok to park for a bit. Then there’s reporting interest earned on the taxes, but the impact isn’t that heavy unless it’s an ass ton.

        Utility companies - people need power and water to survive no matter what else is going on.

        Commodities - prices of goods that people need. Your grocery bill going up and up.


    • Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      The fact that its obviously a bubble, everyone knows its a bubble, everyone knows its gonna pop, and you still hear stories of just how much of the world economy is tied up in this bullshit and how much more money is coming their way is spooky. This will pop, millions will lose their jobs, everyone will be poorer for it, everyone knows that it will happen and the more money we put into this the worse it will be and they just keep doing it.

  • homhom9000 [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    What do you mean? My manager used it the other day to add optional chaining to an undefined variable. How else could they have done that?

    /s